Sunday, March 19, 2006

Legend of Zelda

Well, here's my second series of paintings (three all together) I'm doing for this year's I Am 8-bit Show.

I picked Ledend of Zelda because this is actually the second game I ever got for the NES. Oh the harsh Pennsylvania winter of 1986 was warmed by searching a new world filled with little weird creatures lurking about bushes and tombstones.

The game was amazing, but another really cool thing were the illustrations from the manual. They looked like a Disney cartoon I have never seen! There was this little blond-haired kid )who looked like me) killing bats and searching though dungeons.

I wanted to try something new for this piece so I tried lots of rendering techniques and color comps:

I finally settled on this one:

The final "Antique Link" is (5.5. X 9") acrylic on spruce:

I was only going to do one painting but I really liked how Link turned out so I decided to do 4 small (5x5") paintings on partical board post ends. I drew the ideas on little post-its:

These are great Gabe, and if I in fact had an extra $50 to my name I wouldn't mind spending it at all on a super-cool Zelda painting like one of these.

From one huge Nintendo fan to another let me just say that I am in astonishment of all of your takes on these various characters. I would also kill to see some great little bits of Nintendo animation in this style from you in the future too.

Great blog you have started here, can't wait to see what kooky stuff you cook up next.

referring to my comment on your last post that was removed: I told you so, Blogger doesn't seem to like mario. I don't think you will have anymore trouble posting pics as long as they aren't mario based. I would like to see what you can do with Bomberman. Great Stuff!

Ha! Gabe, your blog is the greatest ever. See, you cover all the important things: Mario, Zelda, ...Mario.

Your latest Zelda paintings are pretty funny; 'especially the one where he's pouring syrup on the like-like thing. It'd be a shame to separate these since they look rad as hell all grouped together. 'Just my take, but you ought to sell them as a set.

I need to see more bro!!! Your paintings are super inspirational. We actually meet you breifly at Comic-con last year after your panel on pitching!!

I've actually started painting recently aswell, well in the last 2 years, sounds like you've had the same issues as me, trying to learn to paint is fun but painful at the same time. Some of my stuff can be seen on my site www.xander13.com. I'd be keen to hear your thoughts bro!!

dude i would give away my left foot for one of your paintings. if you'll ever be able to ship 'em to sweden, be sure to give me a ring and ill buy one off faster than you can say "its peanut butter jelly time"